He dismounted his Tauntaun, then glanced around to watch the activity taking
place inside the
mammoth cave. Wherever he looked he saw things being carried,
assembled, or repaired. Rebels in gray uniforms rushed to unload supplies and
adjust equipment. And there were robots, mostly R2 units and power droids, that
seemed to be everywhere, rolling or walking through the ice corridors, efficiently
performing their
innumerable tasks.
Han was beginning to wonder if he were mellowing with age. At first he had
had no personal interest in or
loyalty to this whole Rebel affair. His ultimate
involvement in the conflict between Empire and Rebel Alliance began as a mere
business transaction, selling his services and use of his ship, the Millennium Falcon.
The job had seemed simple enough: Just pilot Ben Kenobi, plus young Luke and
two droids, to the Alderaan system. How could Han have known at the time that he
would also be called on to rescue a princess from the Empire's most feared battle
station, the Death Star?
Princess Leia Organa...
The more Solo thought about her, the more he realized how much trouble he
eventually bought himself by accepting Ben Kenobi's money. All Han had wanted
originally was to collect his fee and
rocket off to pay back some bad debts that hung
over his head like a
meteor ready to fall. Never had he intended to become a hero.
And yet, something had kept him around to join Luke and his crazy Rebel
friends as they launched the now-legendary space attack on the Death Star.
Something. For the present, Han couldn't decide just what that something was.
Now, long after the Death Star's destruction, Han was still with the Rebel
Alliance, lending his assistance to establish this base on Hoth, probably the bleakest
of all planets in the galaxy. But all that was about to change, he told himself. As
far as he was
concerned, Han Solo and the Rebels were about to blast off on divergent
courses.
He walked rapidly through the
underground hangar deck where several Rebel
fighter ship were docked and being serviced by men in gray assisted by droids of
various designs. Of greatest concern to Han was the saucer-shaped freighter ship
resting on its newly installed
landing pods. This, the largest ship in the hangar, had
garnered a few new dents in its metal hull since Han first hooked up with Skywalker
and Kenobi. Yet the Millennium Falcon was famous not for its
outward appearance
but for its speed: This freighter was still fastest ship ever to make the Kessel Run or
to
outrun an Imperial TIE
fighter.
Much of the Falcon's success could be attributed to its
maintenance, now
entrusted to the
shaggy hands of a two-meter-tall mountain of brown hair, whose face
was at the moment hidden behind a welder's mask.
Chewbacca, Han Solo's giant Wookiee copilot, was repairing the Millennium
Falcon's central lifter when he noticed Solo approaching. The Wookiee stopped his
work and raised his face shield, exposing his furry countenance. A growl that few
non-Wookiees in the
universe could
translate roared from his toothy mouth.
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